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Keegan Bradley outlasted Jason Dufner in a three-hole playoff Sunday to win the PGA Championship. Bradley birdied the first playoff hole. Dufner squandered a four-hole edge in regulation. (August 14)
Continue reading …Another tidbit from Michele Bachmann’s media victory lap today: On Meet the Press , Gawker notes, Bachmann dodged (and dodged again… and again…) David Gregory’s repeated attempts to get her to address her 2004 comments that being gay is “personal enslavement.” Instead, she consistently said, “I am running for the presidency…
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Beyonce fans, we have lift off. As if a store created solely to sell a collaborative album between two of the world’s hottest hip hop entertainers for a limited time only wasn’t enough to get fans lining up, a special appearance by Queen Bey herself probably sent them over the edge. That’s right — Beyonce … More » Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : Idolator Discovery Date : 13/08/2011 18:37 Number of articles : 2
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The wind gust that toppled a stage at the Indiana State Fair Saturday night, killing five and injuring dozens of fans waiting for a band to perform, was a “fluke” that no one could have anticipated, the governor and others said Sunday. (Aug. 14)
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Click here to view this media Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is encouraged by his fifth place finish in Saturday’s Iowa Straw Poll. “Rep. Bachmann, first I want to congratulate her for winning,” Cain told CNN’s Candy Crowley Sunday. “She also put substantial funds into this straw poll. It was reported by one of her staffers this morning in an article that they had 40 busses. Well, we had four busses to bring people here. We spent zero in TV. We spent zero on the radio. And so this campaign is encouraged and our momentum continues to grow.” “In your heart of hearts at night, do you sit around thinking, ‘I can be the Republican nominee?’” Crowley wondered. “Be honest. You know how it’s parsed here in the public, people say Herman Cain is like fifth and he’s way behind, he doesn’t have any money. Certainly, you barely show up in the national polls. Do you say to yourself, ‘I can win this?’ Because Tim pawlenty sort of stared this in the face and said, ‘I can’t win.’” “I don’t wake up at night saying, ‘I can’t win,’ but I wake up saying I can,” Cain replied. “For me to be finishing in the middle of the pack with a 46 percent name ID and not spending as much money as some of these other candidates, that’s a great position to be in.” “I truly believe, Candy, that I can win the nomination and the presidency.”
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Click here to view this media (h/t Karoli) Now, don’t get me wrong: I actually kind of like Fareed Zakaria’s take most of the time. I like that he offers up a global perspective, because I think there’s little to be gained by closing our eyes to our place within the community of nations. He’s looked at issues at a deeper level than most Sunday shows and brought in dissenting voices. But boy, do I think he’s off on this one. On a Charlie Rose show earlier in the week, author and psychologist Drew Westen (based on his NYTimes Op-Ed ) gave a fairly common and impassioned argument within the progressive community of President Obama’s performance so far : Drew Westen: I guess I’ll start by saying just from that clip that you just played, which I hadn’t heard before but I think it’s a prime example is that the President blamed the problem on Congress. He didn’t say – and he blamed the problem on the lack of quote/unquote “Congress” to – to be able to – to negotiate in good faith and to compromise. The problem is actually isn’t the problem in Congress, it’s the problem that one side of Congress is actually not willing to negotiate and the other side was willing to negotiate away most of its core principles. So that kind of rhetoric may help the President in his re-election efforts, looking like he is the grown-up who’s above the fray. But in fact what he’s just done is actually to take one more shot at his own party, which is trying to be incredibly conciliatory along with him and they’re getting pretty tired of what a lot of them feel is one capitulation after another on core principles. Charlie Rose: And you want him to do what? Drew Westen: I want him to act like a Democrat. No, I take – I take that back. I’d like to him to act like a Republican, which is to have some convictions and stick with it. Stick with them…. ” And while it’s inarguable that Obama has managed to get some big ticket Democratic items, like health care reform, it’s always come at the cost of giving away the most progressive plank before negotiations even begin. Jonathan Chait of The New Republic argued on the same show that Westen is ahistoric and full of nonsense . Zakaria, coming distinctly on the same side as Chait, posits it is that success Obama has realized–compromised though it may be–that means that liberals are being entirely too unreasonable in their expectations. I think that liberals need to grow up. As “The New Republic’s” Jonathan Chait brilliantly points out, there is a recurring liberal fantasy that if only the president of the United States would give a stirring speech, he would sweep the country along with the sheer power of his poetry and enact his agenda. In this view, write Chait, every known impediment to the legislative process – special interest lobbying, the filibuster, macro economic conditions, not to mention certain settled beliefs of public policy – are but tiny stick huts trembling in the face of the atomic bomb of the presidential speech. This does happen if you’re watching the movie “The American President,” but not if you’re actually watching what goes on in Washington. Strawman, party of two? Westen’s Op-Ed did not place that much significance on soaring rhetoric, only to note that the speeches that stirred a nation to get out to vote for Obama has not as yet seemed to match his actual actions. No, liberals aren’t upset that he doesn’t make more heartwarming speeches. Liberals are upset that Obama’s tactics to negotiate in the conditions Zakaria describes is to start out giving the other side more than 50% of what they want and move further to the right from there. But that’s a much harder position to defend, so Chait and Zakaria create a strawman to make liberals look unreasonable. Further, there is no indication–as Zakaria asserts–that Americans are concerned with jobs AND deficit spending . Americans care about their jobs and the economy vis a vis whether they’ll have a job in the foreseeable future . The deficit is a concern of Beltway Villager academics, not average Americans. To be fair, I have my own issues with some of the left’s criticism of Obama too, because it appears to completely ignore the political environment we’re in and how close the votes have been. I also think it’s important to remember what the President can legally do and what is the provenance of Congress. But it’s the dismissive, condescending attitude of Zakaria towards liberal concerns that grates. I don’t think that liberals hoping to see a little more strength and leadership from Obama is childish. I think taking the country to the brink of default is childish. I think intransigence against making the very top income earners pay their fair share is childish. I think feeding into racism by questioning whether the President was born in this country is childish. But wanting the President to not ape and accept right wing memes that have driven the country into the economic wasteland we’re in? There’s nothing childish about it.
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It appears David Gregory is a bit confused about how our system of government works. During intense questioning of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) on Sunday's “Meet the Press,” the host scolded his guest for having the nerve to actually care what the American people thought about raising the debt ceiling (video follows with transcript and commentary): DAVID GREGORY, HOST: Let me ask you about the debt ceiling. You were adamantly opposed to raising the debt ceiling. You voted against that. REPRESENTATIVE MICHELE BACHMANN (R-MINNESOTA): Mm-hmm. MR. GREGORY: And there's a lot of people who said that was an incredibly reckless thing to do for our economy. REP. BACHMANN: Oh, hardly, hardly. MR. GREGORY: But, wait… REP. BACHMANN: Yeah. MR. GREGORY: …let me just, let me just take you through it. It wasn't just the president of the United States, it was also the chairman of the Federal Reserve, it was the Treasury secretary, it was your entire… REP. BACHMANN: And they've done such a smashing job for us, haven't they? MR. GREGORY: Well, if I can just finish the question. The entire Republican leadership thought that was the wrong thing to do. Major members of the business community in this country thought that was the wrong thing to do. Why should we trust your judgment that that was the right thing to do and not a reckless act… REP. BACHMANN: Because… MR. GREGORY: …on the part of a congresswoman? “Why should we trust your judgment that that was the right thing to do and not a reckless act on the part of a congresswoman?” Before we get to Bachmann's answer, can you imagine Gregory or any member of the mainstream media asking this question of former Senator Hillary Clinton when she was running for president? Or such a question being asked about votes made by other high-profile Democrat women such as former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), or Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.)? But I digress: REP. BACHMANN: It's a great question you're asking, a fantastic question. Because that's the judgment of the people of this country. The people of this country would love to weigh in, and they would love to say, “Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, you're wrong. Mr. President, you're wrong.” And that's what we… MR. GREGORY: But this is why we have elected representatives, Congresswoman… REP. BACHMANN: That's, that's really, that's really… MR. GREGORY: …who actually know the true financial impact of a step like this. Maybe people are against raising the debt ceiling, but the reality is, bipartisan agreement, in the business community saying you don't do that, you don't mess with the full faith and credit of the United States. Would you have voted the same way… REP. BACHMANN: That's right, that's exactly right. MR. GREGORY: …if you were the deciding vote? Actually, we have elected representatives to go to Washington and carry out the wishes of their constituents whenever it's possible. In this instance, the public as measured by a July 12 Gallup poll were strongly opposed to raising the debt ceiling. Such people didn't want the United States to default on its debt. They instead rightly believed there were ample revenues coming in from tax receipts in August to pay the interest on all of our outstanding treasury paper. As such, folks like Bachmann that were against raising the debt ceiling were indeed carrying out the wishes of their constituents without being anywhere near as reckless as the administration and their shills in the media claimed. On top of this, Gregory is certainly no one to point fingers about knowing the “true financial impact” of not raising the debt ceiling as he completely negected to determine that for his viewers when he interviewed treasury secretary Timothy Geithner in July. Maybe if the “Meet the Press” host had grilled Geithner with the same intensity he did Bachmann, the nation would have been far better informed of the “true financial impact” of such a move: REP. BACHMANN: That's right, you don't mess with the full faith and credit of the United States. That's why I introduced the bill that I did that would have prevented any form of default. It's President Obama who failed to put any sort of a plan forward. That's what led to uncertainty. I was at another business here in, in west Des Moines, Competitive Edge, and, and the owner of that company told me that their problem right now is, again, uncertainty and the fact that they didn't know what was going to happen with interest rates, they don't know what's going to happen with Obamacare, and so they're on hold right now for hiring. The president is not sending the right signals. And again, let me just answer your question because you said, well, all the people in Washington said we had to raise the debt ceiling, all the people out in America said don't raise the debt ceiling. That's the problem with Washington. MR. GREGORY: Right. But, but why does that make it… REP. BACHMANN: They're not listening to the people. MR. GREGORY: …why does it make it the right thing to do? I mean… REP. BACHMANN: Well, because, because, because representatives are supposed to represent the people that they serve. The people that they're serving are saying, “You guys don't have it figured out. Stop spending money you don't have.” MR. GREGORY: But so public opinion will be the sole determinant of how you vote on a particular issue? She didn't say it would be the sole determinant, but the wishes of constituents should certainly be a factor in how an elected official votes. Unfortunately since the Democrats took over Congress in 2007 and the White House in 2009, the Left and their media minions have gotten used to their representatives doing whatever they want with total disregard for public opinion. Now that some folks on the right are once again paying attention to the voters, Gregory and his colleagues think it's “reckless.” Quite the contrary, what has been reckless for the past four years is Democrats passing bill after bill with far greater support from the press than the citizenry. That started to change this January, and people like Gregory can't stand it. Of course doing the public's bidding will surely come back in vogue the second it's once again on the side of the Left. Funny how the public is only important when their views mesh nicely with those of so-called journalists. When this isn't the case, these very same citizens become immediately labeled as uninformed and reckless. It's always quite a treat to watch the intellectual capacity of the average American quickly skyrocket when he or she agrees with the prevailing liberal view.
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